The Undergraduate Students Association Council voted 9-1 Tuesday night to pass a resolution opposing inappropriate force against students by university police. The resolution was drafted in response to recent use of a Taser on a UCLA student by UCPD officers. Officers touched Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a fourth-year Middle Eastern and North African studies student, with a […]
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Trust me, I’m a Daily Bruin columnist: Column 2
Last Tuesday night, after refusing to show his BruinCard to university police officers, UCLA student Mostafa Tabatabainejad was viciously stunned with a Taser five times. We barely had to wait until morning for the Internet to become abuzz with premature accusations and unsubstantiated speculation. Our parents’ generation had to wait around for days for silly […]
Officer named in Taser incident
Terrence Duren, whose tenure with university police has included an award for UCPD Officer of the Year as well as allegations of police misconduct and use of excessive force, was the officer who used a Taser against Mostafa Tabatabainejad in Powell Library last Tuesday, university police said Monday. Duren arrived on the scene with Officers […]
Trust me, I’m a Daily Bruin columnist: Column 1
Mostafa Tabatabainejad is totally guilty. Some may say it’s premature to make conclusions about the incident last Tuesday, in which Tabatabainejad was stunned with a Taser five times in Powell Library after refusing to follow the orders of university police officers. But I don’t think that’s jumping to conclusions. It’s more like passing judgment over […]
Letters to the Editor
Anti-Semitism not new on UCLA campus In our time at UCLA, Holocaust revisionists, raving xenophobic fanatics and other propagators of anti-Semitic hate have been invited to speak on campus. We have watched students say “the Jews are the criminals” at a Meyerhoff Park rally for immigrant rights, an issue for which the Jewish community consistently […]
[BREAKING NEWS]: Officers named in Taser incident
Last updated at 6:14 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 20, 2006 University police identified the officers involved in a Nov. 14 Taser incident on Monday, naming an officer who has been implicated in prior cases of police misconduct and use of excessive force. Terrence Duren, a UCPD officer of 20 years who was not convicted in […]
Letters to the Editor: Responses to the Taser incident
Letters from the UC community UCPD needs to better serve its community While I do agree with David Lazar (“Beware of easy knee-jerk reactions,” Nov. 17) that Mostafa Tabatabainejad was uncooperative and even hostile, an unarmed civilian refusing to leave a library hardly justifies use of force. It is true that police officers face danger […]